The Carbon Cycle Flashcards
What processes are in the carbon cycle?
Photosynthesis
Respiration
Decomposition
Combustion
What organisms carries out photo synthesis?
Plants
What organisms carry out respiration?
Plant
Animals
Microbes
What organisms carry out decomposition?
Microbes
What organisms carry out combustion?
N/A
When plants photosynthesise does carbon go in or out of the atmosphere?
Out
Does respiration let carbon into or out of the atmosphere?
In
Does decomposition let carbon into or out of the atmosphere?
In (carrying out respiration during decomposition)
Does combustion let carbon into or out of the atmosphere?
In
How is carbon used by plants?
Make cell walls
Build proteins
Make glucose
How is carbon used by plants animals and microbes?
Carbon is released as a product of respiration
How is carbon used by microbes?
Microbes use the carbon to build new cell walls
How is carbon used by combustion
Burning fossil fuels releases carbon divined into the atmosphere
